Member of
Technical Staff
at Microsoft Robotics

I helped plan and administer courses, create and present lectures, and teach during office hours. Across seven semesters, I developed course materials and plans for hundreds of students each semester. I also led the rest of the course-assistant team, facilitating all-staff meetings and helping hire and supervise course staff.

Starting in Fall 2022, I mentored teams in CS222 (Software Design Lab), helping students plan semester-long projects and practice software-engineering fundamentals. I personally mentored four teams and was promoted to Lead Course Assistant in January 2023.

In Spring 2022, I was a course assistant for CS128H (Introduction to Computer Science II Honors), where I used Angular to maintain and add features to the course website and taught student teams Rust.

I was a part of the lab of Professor Kaiyu Guan, who is the Director of the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center and is affiliated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. In our research, we utilized satellite data, computational models, and machine learning techniques to develop more productive and sustainable crop practices.

I developed an online portal for farmers, enabling them to access their own crop data and analyze soil moisture data over time. To create this portal, I used Next.js, Google APIs for integrated maps and plots, and hosted the data on MongoDB.

I also collaborated with Assistant Professor Bin Peng, two Colombian social scientists, and the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change (LCLUC) project to map rural croplands in Colombia. The project used satellite imagery and machine learning to study cropland changes caused by conflict.

• Next.js
• Google Maps & Charts
• MongoDB
• Machine learning

I created a framework to control robots with natural-language commands, demonstrated in simulation and on physical hardware. The team adopted and refined the framework after the internship.

I independently planned and built the framework, collaborating closely with the team on integration.

For my project, I developed a robot-teleoperation application. I utilized WebRTC and the Azure Communication Services SDK to relay controls and camera feeds.

This project was a collaborative effort with another intern—we created the project codebase from scratch, made design decisions, and set our own project timeline. During this internship, I gained knowledge in networking, ROS 2, and C#/.NET. In my final review, I received positive feedback for consistently maintaining high code quality and demonstrating independence.

• WebRTC
• Azure Communication Services
• ROS 2
• C# / .NET

This was my first ever internship, and I learned a tremendous amount about software engineering! I was part of the Enterprise Billing team in the Money organization, where I first helped the team recover from a Code Yellow and then built an internal API for our operations team to query all U4B invoices. In the process, I learned how to work with Go, in a monorepo managed with Bazel, and then practiced using React to build my project’s interface. I also helped the on-call team and worked on documentation.

The API used Protobuf to query and sort billing invoices, backed by a real-time analytics database built in collaboration with another intern. I built the corresponding UI with React and GraphQL, incorporating direct user feedback. The resulting tool was easier to use and several times faster and more responsive than its predecessor.

Working in an agile development team also meant contributing to the support channel, product documentation, and resolving product outages.

Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) Program was a selective four-week bootcamp for rising college freshmen. During the program, I used the p5.js library to practice my knowledge of JavaScript, learned from Google’s volunteer instructors and engineers, and attended workshops to learn how to be a successful teammate and engineer.

The program ended with a capstone project that I built and presented with my partner, where I used the p5.js library to replicate the arcade game Centipede.